Jim, Thanks for the info but what I failed to mention was I need all the records for a particular month regardless of year. I have a table called tblTICKLER which has numerous of items that are due on a specific date (I.e. JAN 01, FEB 12, JUN 13 etc.). I want to have an query of each month (I.e. JAN, FEB, etc.) to use for my different reports so if the user wants to print out this the reports for JAN vice everything he/she can. David ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Pettit<mailto:j_e_pettit@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 2:48 PM Subject: [mso] Re: ACCESS 2002 - DATE QUERY David-- 1) The window pops up because of the way you're calling the Date function ([date]). Access thinks that's a field name, and, failing to find that, figures that you want the user to input some value. 2) DatePart will only return the number of the month (1 for January, 6 for June, etc.) 3) To give you "JAN" or "MAR", you will want to define a query column this way: sThreeLetterMonth: UCase(Left(Format([dtDateField],"mmmm"),3)) --Jim -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DAVID A ROSS SR Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:24 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [mso] ACCESS 2002 - DATE QUERY How does one retrieve the month only from a date field in a query? I have a dbase with different dates from various years. I desire to retrieve only certain months, say "JAN" or "MAR" for example. I've attempted using the datepart("m",[date]) and Month([date])=1 functions but they don't work. A window pops up each time asking for the date. 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